Memorial Medical Center cuts 61 beds, but what it means depends upon whom you ask

“I know you’re looking for a story,” Long Beach Memorial Medical Center’s public relations guy Rick Damrel says understandingly, late in a telephone conversation we had Thursday morning.
He’s right–and I’ve just asked him something about the economic stability of Long Beach’s [...]

VETERAN PHYSICIAN CALLS IT “SHAMEFUL CHAPTER” IN HOSPITAL’S HISTORY
Two days remain before a Nov. 1 policy change at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center will turn away ambulances from its emergency room and slash the number of medical beds from 135 to just 50, drastically reducing the level of urgent health care in Long Beach. At [...]